That Realization

This week, I sat outside my son’s martial arts class and couldn’t help but overhear a man speaking on the phone. I wasn’t trying to eavesdrop but his voice projected so loudly that I couldn’t help overhearing much of his conversation. What caught my attention in his words was his admission that he was stopping his line of work because he realized it wasn’t going anywhere. Essentially, he was describing an epiphany. He felt stagnant and simply wasn’t progressing in his life towards a future that he wanted to embrace.

this was deep. How many of us have this realization and are able to act on it? Even if it was not in regards to work, how many of us act on realizations that require discomfort or big change? For myself and my family, I can say that moving from the West Coast to the East Coast was a big, life-changing move. We did not have our jobs’ situation figured out, nor did we have an idea of where we were going to live or where our kids would go to school. It was scary, no doubt. But we believed that some of the goals we could attain in this move would be worth taking a step towards the unknown.

As corny as it is, I’m the type of person that believes life is full of signs that point us in one direction or another. It is we who choose to listen or ignore. So when you have that big realization, or that epiphany that might mean a lot of change and perhaps even a step into the uncomfortable, what will you do? Think about what you might gain versus what you might leave behind.

Happy writing this week!